Foray into All-grain brewing

I have been wanting to try out an all-grain recipe for quite some time. And tonight was the night I got to try it. I had fashioned a lauter tun from a 5 gallon igloo cooler, a metal strainer that I bought from wal mart and about 6 inches of copper plumbing pipe I bought at a hardware store. Now I have to admit I was very proud of myself for coming up with this little baby, however, it failed miserably. I used more grain than my tun could reasonable hold and the strainer turned on its side in the bottom of the cooler. Sigh. however many good things did come out of it. The cooler held the temperature of the mash/grain very well and after creating a horrible mess in my kitchen I got a good amount of usable wort along with my sparge water. Its boiling now and it smells great. here's the ingredients I used:

9 lb. British Pale 2-row

12 oz. 60L British crystal

1 oz Northern Brewer Hops (Bittering, 90 minute boil)

1/2 oz. US Goldings Hops (Flavor, 15 minute boil)

1/2 Oz. US Goldings Hops (Aroma, 5 minute boil)

Belgian wit experiment (Part 2)

Well the experiment turned out very well. after adding the extra 1 lb. of light malt to the brew the original gravity was 1.058 and the final graviy was 1.017. the OG was .010 higher than the original brew which was expected. the alcohol content was 3.25, actually a little less than the original. I efinately didnt expect that. Very interesting.